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無話可說

/u³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
to have no other opinion; to agree
  • 无话可说
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Origin

The phrase 無話可說 is formed by the characters 無, meaning "to not have; there is not; there does not exist"; 話, meaning "words; talk; what somebody says"; 可, meaning "can; may; be able to"; and 說, meaning "to say; to speak."

The character 話 consists of the semantic component 言 ("to say; to speak; to talk") and the phonetic component 𠯑 ("to block the mouth"). The character 可 contains the semantic component 口 ("mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity") and the phonetic component 丂 ("the appearance of air which is to be released"), which is composed of 𠃑 and 一.

The character 說 is composed of the semantic component 言 ("to say; to speak; to talk") and the phonetic component 兌 ("opening, aperture; especially one of the sense organs"). The component 兌 is formed from the semantic component 儿 ("standing person"), the component 人 ("man; person; people"), the component 八 ("eight"), the phonetic component 㕣 ("marsh in between mountains"), and the component 口 ("mouth").

Confidence: high · written by gemma4:26b, checked statement-by-statement against the sources below.

無話可說 由無、話、可、說組成。其中「無」表示沒有、不存在；「話」指言語、談話或某人所說的話，由表示說話的「言」作為語義成分，以及表示堵住嘴部的「𠯑」作為音符組成。

「可」表示可以、能夠，由「口」作為語義成分，並以「丂」作為音符；「丂」由「𠃑」與「一」組成。「說」表示說、講述，由「言」作為語義成分，並以「兌」作為音符。其中「兌」包含表示人或站立的人的「兒」與「人」，並由「八」與「㕣」組成，同時含有「口」作為語義成分。

Confidence: high · written by gemma4:26b, checked statement-by-statement against the sources below.

Lineage

  • characterChinese無 “to not have; there is not; there does not exist”
  • characterChinese話 “words; talk; what somebody says (Classifier: 句 m mn)”
    • meaningChinese言 “to say; to speak; to talk”
    • soundChinese𠯑 “to block the mouth”
  • characterChinese可 “can; may; be able to”
    • meaningChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
    • soundChinese丂 “the appearance of air which is to be released”
      • componentChinese𠃑
      • componentChinese一 “one”
  • characterChinese說 “to say; to speak”
    • soundChinese兌 “opening, aperture; (especially) one of the sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, mouth)”
      • ideaChinese八 “eight”
      • soundChinese㕣 “marsh in between mountains”
      • meaningChinese儿 “standing person”
      • ideaChinese人 “man; person; people (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 h)”
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Meanings

phrase
  1. to have no other opinion; to agree
  2. to have great resentment for unacceptable actions

Sources

  • etymagent (local gemma4:26b) — Generated
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0